Call for solidarity from Bangkok: Zero Evictions for Pom Mahakan, an exemplary community facing terminal eviction after 25 years of struggle!

After a quarter of a century the tiny (under 300 inhabitants) Pom Mahakan community, which nestles against the original old city wall of Bangkok, Thailand, is faced with the very real threat that early August 2016 the authorities, violating the art. 11 ICESCR acceded by the country, will evict all the residents and begin the demolition of their homes on the name of a so called “beautification project”.

This is an international call: stand in solidarity and sign, right now, Zero Evictions for the Pom Mahakan community!

Pom Mahakan, a harmonious and well-run local community under siege in the heart of old Bangkok

Pom Mahakan, a community of approximately 300 people in the heart of old Bangkok, has been repeatedly threatened with forced eviction over a period of some 25 years in the name of a project of so-called “beautification” that violates the community’s human rights, especially as per art. 11 of ICESCR (to which Thailand is a signatory). The city authorities have shown no willingness even to consider the several highly constructive land-sharing projects that have been proposed; have defamed the community; and have offered only inadequate compensation.

The International Alliance of Inhabitants is a global network of associations and social movements of inhabitants, cooperatives, communities, tenants, house owners, homeless, slum dwellers, indigenous populations and people from working class neighbourhoods. The objective is the construction of another possible world starting from the achievement of the housing and city rights.